Author: Sir Browne, Thomas

Cited by

• Graham Swift (1)
  • IN: Last Orders (1996) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
    FROM: Urn Burial, (1658), Book, UK
• Paul and Prepolec, Charles Kane (1)
  • IN: Beyond Rue Morgue Anthology: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe's 1st Detective (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, although puzzling questions are not beyond all conjecture.
    FROM: Urn-Burial, (1658), Book, UK
• William Styron (1)
  • IN: Lie Down in Darkness (1951) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And since death must be the Lucina of life, and even Pagans could doubt, whether thus to live were to die; since our longest sun sets at right descencions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness, and have our light in ashes; since the brother of death daily haunts us with dying mementos, and time that grows old in itself, bids us hope no long duration; -- diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation.
    FROM: Urn Burial, (1658), Book, UK
• Eric Ambler (1)
  • IN: A Coffin for Dimitrios (1939) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: But the iniquity of oblivion blindely scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity... Without the favour of the everlasting register, the first man had been as unknown as the last, and Methuselah's long life had been his only Chronicle.
    FROM: Hydriotaphia, (1658), Book, UK